Hair inner lining



g- 1, 1939- M. J. SHEERR 2,168,002

HAIR INNER LINING I Filed March 19, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Na ur/ce IS/yeerr INVENTOR ATTORNEY 1, 1939. M. J. SHEERR 2,168,002

HAIR INNER LINING Filed March 19, 1936 2 SheetS- -Sheet 2 iii! 'Naur/ce I eerr ENTOR ATTORNEY Patented-Aug. 1, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

My invention relates to an improved and novel coat front structure and has for its important purpose to provide a novel fabric and structure for coat fronts. In accordance with the common conventions of tailoring practice, a coat front consists of a body portion of canvas, linen, jute or the like and a chest piece of hair cloth, hair inner lining or in some instances of canvas, linen or jute. Felt, flannel or fiannelette is usually attached to the chest piece of the coat front in order to give the requisite padding for the thickness and the softness that are essential for desirable shapeliness and style of the coat.

An object of my invention is to replace the conventional chest piece of hair cloth and felt (or whatever materials are used to construct the ordinary chest piece) with my single novel fabric, thus affording softness, padding and thickness and eliminating the felt that is attached to the coat front. When the use of my uniquely woven hair lining supplants the customary practice,

manufacturers are then enabled to produce more readily and economically garments that respond to the requirements of resilience, comfort and artistic durability.

Another object of my invention is to provide a replacement with my hair inner lining of the domett or the flannel lining that is usually inserted between the silk facing and the coat front of a dress suit, thereby giving the necessary padcling and softness.

Furthermore, my hair inner lining can serve the purpose of giving the required padding to overcoats.

And finally, my hair inner lining can be applied to all kinds of garments with the object in view of a complete elimination of the coat front as ordinarily constructed.

Fig. l is a side elevation of a coat.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the lining of a coat.

Fig. 3 is a diagram of the weave showing the side on which the warp threads predominate.

Fig. 4 is a diagram of the Weave showing the side on which the weft threads predominate.

In Fig. l, I is a conventional coat, 2 is an arm hole, 3 is the skirt of the coat I, 4 is the collar, 5 is the chest piece comprising a hair inner lining. In Fig. 1, the chest piece 5 is represented by the dotted section.

In Fig. 2, 6 is the coat fabric and 1 represents the hair inner lining consisting of a warp, in which a majority of softly spun threads of wool are placed on one side of the warp and can be mapped to create thickness when filled with combined goat hair, horse hair and camel hair.

In Fig. 3, the solid vertical lines 8 represent the warp threads that can be heavily napped. The dotted lines surrounding the solid lines indicate the napping to which the warp threads are subjected. As a consequence this surface of the cloth is thick and fluffy. The double lines 9 in Fig. 3 represent the weft threads.

In Fig. 4, the solid horizontal lines l0 represent the weft threads which predominate on the side opposite to the napped surface. The warp threads are represented in Fig. 4 by the vertical double lines ll.

According to my invention, I attain these results by weaving my hair inner lining in the following manner. A majority of the softly spun cotton, worsted or woolen (or a mixture of cotton, Worsted and woolen) threads are desirably placed on one side of the warp and can be easily napped up to create substantial thickness and softness. The woof or filling is made up of goat hair, horse hair, camel hair, etc. However, there is a wide latitude in the disposition and the material of the threads of the warp and, similarly, the filling can be composed of materials other'than those mentioned. With a lining thus woven, I have available a fabric smooth on one side and napped up on the other side and in all a fabric that is aptly adapted to the construction of a coat front as I have indicated. For example, the chest piece which is ordinarily constructed of hair cloth or, other suitable material sewn to felt or flannel can now be made of a single fabric, smooth and satin-like on one side and soft and thick on the other.

Furthermore, I use my novel hair inner lining in the tailoring of dress suits in order to eliminate the flannel or the domett that is placed between the silk facing and the conventional coat front. The napped surface of my fabric which constie tutes the coat front serves to express completely the functions of the flannel that is ordinarily interposed between the facing and the coat front.

In fact, my fabric woven as I have set forth can be used anywhere in the construction of garments requiring the interposition of a hair lining which is smooth on one surface and napped, soft and thick on the other surfaceas in overcoats, dress coats in which part or all of the coat front can be made of myaforesaid hair inner lining.

While the hair inner lining and its method of application as described are the preferred embodiment of my invention, nevertheless the same may be modified in detail without departing from Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An article of clothing, a coat, said coat comprising sleeves, collar, skirt and a coat front 5 structure, said coat front structure consisting of a chest piece comprising a hair inner lining consisting of a warp, in which a majority of softly spun threads of wool are placed on one side of the warp and are adapted to be napped to create thickness, and a filling of combined goat hair, horse hair and camel hair.

MAURICE JACOB SHEERR. 

